The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Great thread, I've had my Gakken for a couple of years and when I first got it I made a few somewhat decent cut discs using the provided plastic blanks. I tried my hand at embossing CDs with a flipped stylus but they were all pretty awful. My workflow seemed fine, folded mono and something resemblin...

Thanks piaptk, I will keep this in mind if nothing turns up locally.

MEGAMIKE thankyou for your offer, I have sent an email to your address

Hi all, It's been over a decade since I put the feelers out for lathe parts locally but the itch has never gone away. I'm still keen to add embossing records to my ever-growing list of hobbies. Before I go down the DIY route, and it's something I've been looking into very seriously, specifically 3D ...

Looking to get involved more seriously with this hobby and push beyond the DIY. These two usually seem to go for pretty cheap so I guess it is a good place to start. I would ideally like the 6N overhead unit and 1D head, but a similarly designed spindle drive overhead, and simple mono head would suf...

I only have a very old version of the Verbatim Digital Vinyl CD-R lying around, but it seems that not only are the "groove" rings concentric therefore locked, but they are also raised and not actually grooves at all. Also there is only like 30 grooves per inch on it.